"An election year is a shit blizzard. Every place you go for news online -- whether it's portal sites like Reddit, or aggregators like Google News or Yahoo! News or RealClearPolitics, or goddamned clips from late night talk shows -- they're all about to get buried under a brown storm of bullshit inflammatory headlines desperate for your click.

This turdstorm of pointless click-bait filler is a problem for anyone who wants to be an informed voter. To learn anything useful, you need to be able to sort through all of the garbage to find the actual information and insight. So let me just tell you right now that you can safely ignore any story if ..."

This came from a humor website and is actually pretty funny. Its also an interesting observation about what passes as political "news."

The best way IMO to learn about a politician is to look at their voting record, and if they don't have one, their professional history. You can't out-spin a "yay" or "nay" vote if it doesn't mesh with what the electorate actually wants.